I was doing really well, but I just realized I haven’t read anything “official” news related in about 4 days.
It’s easier to keep up with the world during the week because I have a trigger for reading, waking up. I make it a habit on the weekdays to wake up, get ready, and read the news for a bit before heading out to work. On the weekend and when I want to make fresh juice on the weekdays these things just don’t happen.
I think it’s a matter of timing and trying to fit too much in when I’m tired and busy, so I will try this again but going over the news in the evening instead of when I am rushing to get out the door.
Photo by just.Luc and used under Creative Commons.
May 24, 08:46PM PDT | 0 comments
Deadline:
Started: Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Goal Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011
- Get shop up and running
- Get shop bringing in $100+ a month
- Take vintage-esque pin up pictures
- Take a basic photography class
- Take a cooking class
- Read 100 books minimum (1/100)
- Learn to play the acoustic guitar
- Buy an acoustic guitar
- Take archery lessons
- Learn French
- 50 pounds down
- Get as close to having a dancers body as possible
- Get a physical
- Complete Portfolio
- Create a business card and use it
- Complete online portfolio for design
- Get 5+ freelance design gigs(0/5)
- Prepare 10 card designs based around amazing typography(0/10)
- Write and send 50 letters/cards to friends and loved ones(0/50)
- Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
- Travel out of the country 3+ times (0/3)
- Visit 10 states that I haven’t been to (0/10)
- Ride the train 1+ hours away
- See 3+ plays or musicals(0/3)
- See the Nutcracker and Swan Lake
- See the Rocky Horror Show
- Host a vegan dinner party
- Make 5 new friends(0/5)
- Go to a brewery or beer tasting
- Volunteer in a homeless shelter
- Attend 30+ volunteer gigs (0/30)
- Participate in a walk for charity
- Take a yoga class
- Save up $3000+ dollars for emergency fund
- Visit Montreal
- Visit Europe/Scandinavia
- Go somewhere non touristy in Mexico
- Get business license
- Learn to make 5 vegan dishes (0/5)
- Learn to make 2 really good vegan desserts(0/2)
- Commit the 5 vegan dishes I’ve learned to make to memory(0/5)
- Commit the 2 vegan desserts to memory too(0/2)
- Take an advanced photography class
- Attend a film festival
- Start making my collage boxes
- Sell one piece of art
- Be in a gallery/art show
- Go 85% paperless
- Get domestic
- Increase veggies/fruit intake & be 85% raw vegan
- Get into the habit of mending and re-using broken items, start with fixing 5 things (0/5)
- Want less, buy less
- Ride my bike from one end of Haight Street to the other, uphill
- Complete my plan for my non profit organization
- Complete The Six Day Financial Makeover and get control on my finances
- Get a bike that makes more sense in San Francisco – done March 2009
- Get a bike helmet and wear it
- Make 52 cards and send them to the love at work
- Have my own design coded into a wordpress theme for destination fantastic
- Make my own interesting and fun jewelry
- Create a system where the house only needs to be lightly cleaned once a week
- Find 5 concrete ways to be more positive
- Learn to knit
- Get 95 percent or better on easy drums on all the songs in Rock Band(0/80)
- Make sure the LOML knows I love him on a regular basis
- Add 5 techniques to my life to become more efficient
- Do enough design to feel confident in a project from beginning to end
- Learn to network and gain 10 career oriented contacts
- Be able to hula for 5 minutes without dropping the hoop
- Be able to hula for 10 minutes without dropping the hoop
- Be out of my Admin Assistant position within 1.5 years (countdown starting 3/2/09, 1.5 years = around Sept. 3 2010)
- Complete 2 single week long juice fasts/feasts in 2009
- Complete 2 single week long juice fasts/feasts in 2010
- Initiate conversations with 5 strangers
- Discover 1 new band a month starting 03/02/09
- Ride my bike for an hour + every day for 30 consecutive days
- Have one of my websites be in the top three for a Google Search on Audrey Reed by the end of 2009
- Have all my websites on the front page of a Google Search on Audrey Reed by the end of 2010
- Memorize the Bill of Rights
- Leave my Social Anxiety behind me
- Minimize and De-Clutter by getting rid of 50 possessions (0/50)
- Form the habit of reading some sort of news every morning by doing it consecutively for 30 days
- Finish 10 projects (0/10)
I know there aren’t 101 things yet, but with a list this big there is definently no rush!
May 12, 10:48PM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments
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12 months ago
Over the weekend I went to my first wedding as an adult, and it was quite the eye opener I tell you.
I realized just how amazingly awesome my friend E is, and how happy and in love her and her fella are, and how they truly deserve each other. I’ve never felt so much joy for someone else in my life. Seeing this made me ponder my own relationship, and where its going. I don’t know if I can see us getting married in the immediate future anymore, though I once saw it so clearly. Still working on our relationship. We are happy, but can we ever be that happy?
Also flew down to San Diego on a plane completely by myself for the fist time. While it was a hellacious experience due to security and the clothes I chose to wear, it was awesome because for the first time I wasn’t scared to fly. The few times I flew last year involved tears galore. Some say dreams are a way of helping your brain and body work things out. All those dreams about being on crashing airplanes have, oddly enough, really really helped.
Jun 20, 2008, 01:14PM PDT | 5 cheers | 0 comments
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